Cultivator and seeder



L, HINESLY. Cultivator and Seeder.

No. 232,183. V Patented Sept. 14, 1880.

NPETERS PHQTO-UTHOGRAPHER WASHINGTON D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LINZY HINESLY, OF ATHENS, GEORGIA.

CULTIVATOR AND SEEDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 232,183, dated September 14, 1880.

7 Application filed February 18, 1880.

. or more kinds of seed in different quantities,

as desired, or so as to plant seed and distribute fertilizer.

The construction is also such as to permit the device to be readily CODXBItGd into a cult-ivator.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of my improved planter; Fig. 2, a plan view.

The frame A consists of side bars, a a, connected at front and rear, and supports a hop per, B, divided into three compartments, as y z, and is supported at the front by a wheel, 0, having at the opposite sides pins 1) I).

Beneath the hopper are arranged two seedslides, d d, through an opening, 0, in each of which passes a long curved finger, 0, extending into the compartment 00 from a lever, F, pivoted below the hopper. At the rear are stocks f, for the attachment of the usual covering-plows. Each lever F extends to one side of the wheel 0, and the spring h tends to throw the rear end upward. Different kinds of seeds may be used, and that by removing the hop-' per a frame suitable for a CLIIEIVHAZOPPIOW stock is obtained.

I claim- The combination of the frame A, wheel 0, its pins 1) b, levers F F, having fingers e, and hopper B, divided into compartments wyz, and slides d d, forming the bottom of the compartment w, and operated by the fingers e, as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

hi LINZY XS HINESLY.

n rk. Witnesses: 11

JAMES WHITE, J AS. A. CARLTON. 

